To:CAMILLE HUYSMANS

Published:First published in 1963 in French inCahiers du Monde Russe et SoviétiqueNo. 1–2.

      First published in Russian in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48.

      Sent from Paris to Brussels.

      Printed from a typewritten copy.

      Translated from the French.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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DearCitizen,

Ihave received your Circular No. 5. I am enclosing an official
			    communication[1]which I would ask you to for ward to the secretaries of all the parties
duly affiliated with the International Association.

Ialso have, dear citizen, a request to make in regard to your
introduction to Circular No. 5: would you be so kind as to explain to me a
point on which I am not quite clear. The thing is this. In the second
sentence of your introduction you put forward what I think is a fine
principle; you say that the secretariat is duty bound to pass on (to all
organisations) documentssubmitted by organisations duly affiliated
with the International Association, and by members of the
Bureau.... This is perfectly correct. But, dear citizen, do you not think
that the first sentence of your introduction, in which you say that you are
communicating to the parties affiliated with the Association a protest
resolution sent, as you so kindly informed me, by Citizen Babin, clearly
contradicts this principle? Does Babin represent an organisation duly
affiliated with the Association, and if so, what organisation? Or perhaps
Babin is a member of the Bureau? If he is, what organisation does he
represent? And what organisation affiliated with the Association is
responsible to the Bureau for the Paris resolution? I shall be boundlessly
grateful to you, dear citizen, if you dispel my doubts.

Withfraternal greetings,N. Lenin

[1]See“A Letter to Huysmans, Secretary of the International Socialist
Bureau” (present edition, Vol. 17, pp. 547–50).—Ed.